by Elena Chong, Court Correspondent

A POLICE officer was charged on Wednesday with corruption, giving false information and illegally accessing the police computer system.

Sylvester Marian, 44, was the officer-in-charge of Bedok Police Division's commercial crime squad when he allegedly accepted $5,000 from one Leong Weng Loong through another man to be lenient in his investigation against Leong.

He also faces 10 charges under the Computer Misuse Act of performing unauthorised screenings to get residential addresses of his two former girlfriends and the former husband of one of them in 2005.

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